Noida teen bags project for green crematorium

NOIDA: A teenage resident of Noida’s Techzone 4, Sahib Sawhney (18), has bagged a Rs 1.59 crore project to revolutionise a crematorium at Kesi Ghat Vrindavan from the Mathura Vrindavan Development Authority .


Sawhney, who passed out of a Delhi school in May 2018, had been planning to float his technology-based environment conservation company, Green Revolution Foundation, since he was in school.

“I wanted to start the company even when I was in school, but my family insisted I completed high school at least. I’ve always been concerned about the number of trees felled in India to cremate the dead. The human body is highly inflammable.”

India has over 2,000 crematoriums, and lakhs of trees are annually felled for cremation. According to Sawhney, the idea for a green alternative has been experimented with before, but the idea hasn’t caught up partially because sale of wood for traditional cremation is a huge business. “There is an economy running around cremation and people involved in selling wood don’t want an alternative,” Sawhney said.

Sawhney is set to build an eco-friendly crematorium at Kesi Ghat Vrindavan, where he has been a awarded a project to clean up and transform a burning ghat using his green technology. “I have put my idea to test at a cremation ground in Varanasi, on the basis of which, we secured the project at Vrindavan,” Sawhney said.